Real quality

[sigvald@duckburg.dk]

"Donald D. Markstein" wrote:

> Calvin & Hobbes comes about as close to "objective"
> quality as it's possible to come. It has the unique
> distinction of having won two Reuben Awards in its
> first three years, and is almost as popular in reruns
> as it was when it was first coming out -- and that's
> VERY popular.

Off course it is popular. That is (I think) because it
is seen as "correct" by many young people who often are
more or less unfamiliar with the high quality comics
traditions from the 1930's, 1940's, 1950's, 1960's and
the early 1970's. I have even heard such "correct"
people say that "Bah! Donald Duck is just for kids".


> For that matter, I'm a big fan of Ernie, too, and
> Beetle Bailey often gets a laugh out of me as well...

Exactly!!! These comics seems to be about one thing
- humor. Unfortunately some people seems to believe
that short humor gags is all that comics should be
concerned about.

Well, I am different, I prefer long comics stories
with an intelligent plot. So I very seldom read
modern humor gags comics.

Sigvald :-)